Regularly updated - Take a Break Puzzle Magazines (PLEASE READ POST #2 FIRST)

fire**fly

carolinejane wrote: »

oh dear you have so missed the point. :D

if firefly or anyone else for that matter wanted to buy a magazine, do the puzzles and post the answers to an elite group of people allowed to see them then thats fine - start a blog or a private facebook. Maybe you could even collect funds to pay for your mag every week. However if you have offered to post the answers on the world wide web on an open forum for anyone and everyone to see then you have no come back when the answers are used by someone viewing the thread.

Perhaps all her friends and supporters on here could also dip into their pockets rather than just clicking a thanks button and hoping to win off the back of it.

There are some really strange mixed values that exist in the competitions board thats for sure.

i thinkyou have missed the point cj
it's not the cost of the magazine & i'm quite insulted by your implecations saying that, it's more the time it takes to do the puzzles,
yes, i chose to do them, post them on here, yes, it's an open forum, yes, i know everyone can copy them
but as said before to you on my last post,
it's always been a code of conduct/respect that compers don't copy magazine answers to put on other comp sites,
yes, we know it happens & sometimes i've ridden over it & not commented, but that was ridiculous this morning to have nearly a whole thread taken from here & posted on another site.

Rusti4

Hi,

Please don't think i'm being forward but you said: i only wish i was... why?
Are you still in bad health? If yes, then the best of wishes to you on a speedy recovery....x

tttJay wrote: »

Thankyou.....I only wish I was

tttJay

Rusti4 wrote: »

Hi,

Please don't think i'm being forward but you said: i only wish i was... why?
Are you still in bad health? If yes, then the best of wishes to you on a speedy recovery....x

Thanks for your good wishes , yes, I'm not at all well at the mo, treatment hasn't worked and more to come

fire**fly

carolinejane wrote: »

fair enough then that is again your choice not to do the comps now with the new world of internet that exists. My point was never to get at you as individual just to put another view of of the way things seem to work on comps.

you have got the wrong idea again cj, i buy the mags because i enjoy doing the puzzles & putting the answers on here MSE for the members on here, it's my way of contributing as i enter a lot of comps posted by the members on here,
i'm not sure how old you are & it's none of my business but i think i've been buying/posting them a long time before you proberly had heard of them,
i didn't/haven't said you were trying to get at me as an individual,
& i do understand what you're saying,
ie:
if i/we post the answers on an open comp site, peeps will always 'lift/take' the answers to post elsewhere,
well, surely it's up to us individuals to hopefully get the message across it's not nice to do that sort of thing, even if one person only takes notice it's one better thing

jaibaby

I just spent an hour looking for (and failing to find) the post that was posted in Postals a few weeks back. Someone wanted to know how to find the TAB etc posts, and a link to Fire**fly's previous posts was put up. As I read it, I thought to myself "Well, they're going to be busy for a few months with all those comps she's done", and quite rightly, a few minutes later someone else posted "Only click this link if you have a lot of free time" (probably not exact words). It seems every other comp I enter is posted by fire**fly, she is a very valuable member of this forum.

I think it is very unfair that people can just come along as they please and copy posts which the OP's have worked (and paid) for. It has been shown on here before some people are copying word for word. There's not much we can do, other than people stopping posting them, but then as someone said, they would be nothing to this part of the forum. The same as there seems to be more people who like to be "big and hard" whilst hiding behind a screen.

Fire**fly, I love you, and I know there are a lot more who do too :A

Matryoshka

jaibaby wrote: »

a few minutes later someone else posted "Only click this link if you have a lot of free time"

T'was me. Took me a whole evening that did

Matryoshka

jaibaby wrote: »

I just spent an hour looking for (and failing to find) the post that was posted in Postals a few weeks back.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=45702706&postcount=604

Jokey

Thanks for your concern Todo & Firefly

I promise I would not offer if I didn't want to do it I have kids in school (soon) and I'm very lucky in that they go to bed at a nice time & I have enough spare time to myself My life pretty much revolves around my children in the day & competitions (both entering & posting) in any spare time I have.

I am happy to post for as long as I'm needed

janestott33

A BIG BIG thankyou to firefly and jokey for all your hard work, I hope you feel better soon tttjay.

MimiJane

Just want to add my thanks to fire**fly for all your hard work, time and generosity

I don't know how you do it jokey ... if I had a hat, I'd take it off to you!

tttJay ... what a trooper Hope the treatment goes much better this time and you start to feel better very soon.

xxx